What is "sea serpent"

Sea serpent \Sea" ser"pent\

1. (Zo["o]l.) Any marine snake. See Sea snake.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.

   Note: Many accounts of sea serpents are imaginary or fictitious; others are greatly exaggerated and distorted by incompetent observers; but a number have been given by competent and trustworthy persons, which indicate that several diverse animals have been called sea serpents. Among these are, apparently, several large snakelike fishes, as the oar fish, or ribbon fish ( Regalecus), and huge conger eels. Other accounts probably refer to the giant squids ( Architeuthis). Some of the best accounts seem to describe a marine saurian, like the fossil Mosasauri, which were large serpentlike creatures with paddles.

n. Any unidentified sea monster, especially one resembling a snake or dragon.

n. huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon

A sea serpent or sea dragon is a type of unclassified marine animal either wholly or partly serpentine.

Sightings of sea serpents have been reported for hundreds of years, and continue to be claimed today. Cryptozoologist Bruce Champagne identified more than 1,200 purported sea serpent sightings. It is currently believed that the sightings can be best explained as known animals such as lungfish, oarfish, whales, or sharks (in particular, the frilled shark). Some cryptozoologists have suggested that sea serpents are relict plesiosaurs, mosasaurs or other Mesozoic marine reptiles, an idea often associated with lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster.

A sea serpent is a mythological sea monster either wholly or partly serpentine.

Sea Serpent or The Sea Serpent may refer to:

• Sea Serpent (clipper), 1850 clipper ship which sailed in the San Francisco and China trade
• Sea-Serpent, a steam yacht, formerly (1904)
• Sea Serpent (roller coaster), at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey
• Sea Serpent Cove, a cove in the South Sandwich Islands
• The Sea Serpent, 1901 adventure novel by Jules Verne

Sea Serpent is a steel roller coaster at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey. Opened in 1984, it was built by Vekoma, and was the first boomerang-style coaster to be built in the US. The coaster's installation was part of a redevelopment of the Marine Pier into a new Mariner's Landing area in 1984.

Sea Serpent consists of a single train with seven cars, capable of carrying 28 passengers. The ride begins when the train is pulled backwards from the station and up the first lift hill by a catchcar. After being released, the train passes through the station, enters a Cobra Roll track element, and then travels through a vertical loop. After being pulled up a second lift hill, the train is released to head backwards through each inversion once more, making the total amount of inversions per ride six.